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Definitions

• This invention relates to A -cephalosporin esters, that benzyl phenoxymethylpenicillin sulfoxide ester, followed by cleavage of the phenoxyacetyl side chain, and reacylation of the resulting 7 aniinodesacteoxycephalow sporanate esterwith the N-protected activated form of phenylglycine,v and removal of the N-protecting group and, the ester group to obtain cephalexin as the zwitterion,
• a purpose of this invention is to providethe cephalosporin art with some new cephalosporin'compounds-which are useful as intermediates in the preparation of new and useful cephalosporin comis, to cephalosporin ester compounds having a carbon to carbon double bond between the carbon atoms in the 3 and 4 positions of the dihydrothiazine ring moiety of the cephalosporin ester compounds, in which the ring members are numbered, using the ring sulfur as the number 1 position.
• this invention provides a group of new A -cephalosporin ester sulfoxides'having a methylene group (CH bonded to' the carbon atom in the 2 position of the dihydrothiazine ring moiety of the cephalosporin ester sulfoxide structure, as-well as the reduction products thereof, where the 2-Inethylene group is reduced or converted to a Z-methyl group, and also those compounds in which the sulfur atom is 'in"the bivalent state.
• the acid compounds from such esters areu'seful in that they inhibit the growth ofmicroorganisrns such as a Bacillus subtilus, strain X-12.
• esters are of more interest, however as intermediates for the preparation of 2-thiomethyl and 2 thiomethylene ether cephalosporin compounds which can be converted to the sulfide acids which form they are :useful in inhibiting thegrowth bf;
• cephalosporin antibiotics such as cephalothin (U.S. Pat. 3,218,318) and cephaloridine (U.S. Pat. 3,449,338) have been discovered. These antibiotics are presently being manufactured as derivatives of fermentation derived cephalosporin 'C (U.S. Pat. No.
• Cephaloglycinscanbe made by' acylating the cephalosporin Cnucleus, 7-ACA,'with an N-protected activated form of phenylglycine.Cephalexin canbe prepared in a similar manner by a'cylating 7-amino" desacetoxycephalosporanic acid (7-.-ADOA) (U.S. Pat. 3,124,576), or an ester or other derivative thereof with the N-protected activated formof phenylglycine, and thereafter removing the protecting group.
• 7-.-ADOA desacetoxycephalosporanic acid
• Pat..3,275.,626) 'haveenabled the manufacture of cephalexin and numerous other cephalosporin antibiotics 'by a cylation of the 7-aminodesacetoxycephalosporanate esters obtained by the ring expansion of a penicillin sulfoxide ester, e .g., va pnitro pounds which inhibit the growth of various microorganlSlllS.
• this invention provides I new 2-methyleneand Z-methyl cephalosporin ester sulfoxides and sulfides having one of the following formulas:
• R is an amino-pro tecting group
• R is hydrogen or is the residue of an ester group, preferably one which can be removed readily without disrupting the cephem ringstructure
• q is 0 or 1, indieating the sulfide or sulfoxide state of the sulfur atom in ring
• X is hydrogen, hydroxy, C, to C -a1kanoyloxy, 'or'C to C -alkyloxy.
• the Z-methylene-M-cephalosporin sulfoxide esters are prepared, according to this invention, by treating with formaldehyde the corresponding A -cephalosporin sulfoXi-de esterin the presence of a primary or secondary amine or an acid salt of such an amine.
• the 2-methyl-A cephalosporin sulfoxide esters are obtainedby reducing the 2- methylenehi -cephalosporin sulfoxide esters with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst or wherein Z denotes chlorine or bromine and each of R and R taken separately denote a C to C alkyl, or taken together with the nitrogen to which they are bonded complete a monocyclic-heterocyclic ring having from 5 to 6 ring forming atoms and a total of from 4 to 8 carbon atoms, or a halosilane compound having a formula selected from the group consisting of wherein X is chlorine, bromine, or iodine and R is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, or a hydrocarbon radical free of aliphatic unsaturation having from 1 to-8 carbon atoms, and Y is hydrogen or -SiR ,R X wherein R R are the same as R above, and X is as defined above, in the presence or absence of an
• Cepham refers to the cepham ring structure containing adouble bond, the position of which is indicated by a prefixed A with a superscript denoting the lowest humbered carbon atom to which the double bond is connected, or by the word delta with the same number relationship. Sometimes the position of the double bond is indicated by the carbon atom number only.
• penicillin V 6-phenoxymethylpenicillin
• 6 phenoxyacetamido-2,2-dimethylpenamr3-carboxylic acid
• 7-phenoxyacetamidodesacetoxycephalosporanic acid can be named as 7-phenoxyacetamido-3- methyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylic acid.
• a -cephalosporin sulfoxide starting materials are most conveniently described by the general formula wherein R is an amino-protecting group which is not affected by the oxidizing reagents, esterification reagents,
• R denotes the carboxyl protecting group, preferably an easily removable ester group, or an anhydride group
• X is hydrogen, hydroxy, C to C -alkanoy1oxy, or C to C -alkyloxy.
• the R group can be any known peptide blocking group, for example, triphenylmethyl, benzyloxycarbonyl, adamantyloxycarbonyl, methyl-substituted adamantyloxycarbonyl, C to C -tert alkyloxycarbonyl groups such as tert-butoxycarbonyl, tert-pentyloxycarbonyl, tert-hexyloxycarbonyl, C to C -tert-al'kenyloxycarbonyl groups such as tert-pentenyloxycarbonyl, tertheptenyloxycarbonyl, a C to C- tert-alkynyloxycarbonyl, groups such as tert-pentynyloxycarbonyl, tert-hexynyloxycarbonyl, tert-heptynyloxycarbonyl, a C to C -cycloalkyloxycarbonyl group, such as cyclopentyloxy
• R can also be an acyl group which are known in the penicillin and cephalosporin antibiotic literature.
• the selected acyl groups should be stable to the oxidizing and esterification conditions used in preparing the A -cephalosporin sulfoxide ester starting materials, or be capable of protection by suitable blocking groups so as to remain stable.
• acyl groups include: 2-(2'-thienyl)-acetyl D-N- (tert-butoxycarbonylamino) phenylglycyl D-N-(enamine of methyl acetoacetate)phenylglycyl D-N- (benzyloxycarbonylamino) phenylglycyl phenylacetyl phenoxyacetyl benzyloxyacetyl phenylpropionyl phenylbutoxybutyryl 3-fluorophenoxyacetyl 4-bromophenylacetyl 2-chlorobenzyloxypropionyl 3-methylphenylbutyryl 3-cyanophenylpropionyl 4-trifiu'orophenoxyacetyl, and the like.
• acyl groups which can be used in the R position are known in the prior art; e.g., those disclosed in the Behrens et al. US. Pats. 2,479,295 to 2,479,297, and 2,562,407 to 2,562,411, and 2,623,876.
• Other useful acyl groups include 2-thienylacetyl, 3-thienylacetyl,2 f i1rylacetyl,- 3-furylacetyl, 2-(3,4-benzothienyl)acetyl, 2-(3,4- benzofuryl)acetyl, and the like.
• the caboxyl-protecting group represented by R in the above formula should be a group which is removable by the use of conditions and reagents which do not destroy the cepham nucleus of the cephalosporin structure. It is preferably an ester group which is removable by treating the ester with zinc, in a C to C alkanoic acid, or hydrochloric acid such as 2,2,-2-trichloroethyl, a C to C tert-alkyl group suchas tert-butyl, tert-pentyl, and terthexyl, a C to C -tert-alkenyl or a C to C -tert-alkynyl group such as tert-pentenyl, tert-hexenyl, tert-heptynyl, an ester group of the formula where R" represents a C to C (lower) alkanoyl, phthalimido, benzoyl, naphthoyl,
• the X symbol bonded to the methylene carbon in the 3-position of the molecule can be any atom or group which does not interfere with or is stable to the oxidizing and esterification conditions used to prepare the starting mag 'terial.
• X be hydrogen, hydroxyl, C to C -a1kanoyloxy,,or C to C -alkyloxy, although a wide variety of equivalent groups can be used.
• X is hydrogen when the compoundis a desacetoxycephalosporanic acid ester.
• Suchcompounds are formed when penicillin sulfoxide esters are heat re-' arranged under acid conditions, according to 'rriethods now known, e.g., as described in US. Pat.
• X is desired to be hydroxyl a corresponding3- bromomethyl-A cephalosporin ester can be] treated with water to replace the bromine with a hydroxyl group
• 1A C to C -alkyloxy group can be put into theX position in a similar manner by reacting the 3-bromo'ethyl-A -cepha-. losporin ester with a C to C -alkanol.S imilarly, X can be a C to C -alkanoyloxy group by reactingj'the 3-bro m'o methyl-A cephalosporm ester with a C1 to c, alkanoic acid.
• ester indicates the presence and chemical state of the carbox'y'l group attached to the carbon atom in the 4-position
• the sii ilfoxide indicates that the sulfur in the l position of thecephalosporin molecule is in the sulfoxide oxidation state.
• a preferred product of 7 this step of the, 'process 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7-(phenoxya C to C -tert-alkyl or 2,2,2-trichloroet hyl "ester by "methQ ods now known. i The reaction betweenthe formaldehyde, or an equiva lent methylene.
• a ephalosporin sulfoxide ester can be 'conduct'ed'in'an aqueous or organic liquid medium, or in a mixed aqueous/ organic solvent system, in the presence of a primary or secondary amine, or an acid salt of such anl;amine, at temperatures ranging from about 0 C.
• amines are the C to C -alkylamines,fand di (C to C alkylaminessuch-as methylamine,.ethylamine, n-propylamine, isopropylamine, nandisobutylamines', tert-butylamine, dimethylamine, diethylamine, dipropylamine, dibutylamine, piperidine, pyrrolidine, and the hydrochloride or sulfate or other acid salts of such amines.
• the amine salts are preferred since they do not cause discoloration of-the reaction mixture as much as do the free amines.
• the formaldehyde may housed in any of its reactive forms such as trioxymethyle'ne, solid polymeric formaldehyde, and the like, but with most of the selected A -cephalosporin sulfoxide esters, aniaqueous formaldehyde solution is preferred. In preferred procedures, reaction temperatures of from about 40 CI to about 110 C. for from 1 to about 24 hours are used to insure complete reaction.
• the reaction can be conducted under anhydrous conditions if necessary, as when a tri-' methylsilyl ester group is used, by nsing a formaldehyde condensation product in which water of condensation between the amine and the formaldehyde has been removed.
• a formaldehyde condensation product in which water of condensation between the amine and the formaldehyde has been removed.
• the reagent reported by P, Potier et al. J'. Am. Chem. Soc, 90, 5 622 (1968)
• N,Ni dimethylformaldimonium trifiuoroacetate generated from trimethylamine oxide and trifiuoroacetic anhydride in an; hydrous medium may be used.
• An excess may be used.
• Penicillin V phenoxymethylpenicillin
• 2,2,2 trichloroethanol oxidized to the 2,2,2- tric-hlor'oethyl penicillin V sulfoxide ester by procedures now known.
• the oxidation and esterification" steps can be reversed.
• the sulfoxide from step 3 is treated with formaldehyde or an eg' uivalen t reagent in the presence of a primaryorsecondary amine, or an acid salt of such amine at a temperatufe' of from about 0 C. to about 120 C. preferably frornabout 40C. to about C. in an aqueous or organic liquid medium to form the 2,2,2-trichloroethyli 2E.methylene-3-methyl-7-phenoxyacetarnido- A -cephem-4 carboxylate-l-oxide.
• The' new 2-methyl-A -cephalosporin sulfoxide ester compounds are obtained by reducing the corresponding Z methylene-a -cephalosporin sulfoxide ester compounds by known catalytic "hydrogenation procedures, e.g., by treatment with hydrogen in the presence of a palladium or rhodium on "carbon or other suitable support, or by reacting the Z-methylene-M-cephalosporanic acid ester with a dial-kylborane having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms in each alkyl group.
• the new Z-methylene A cephalosporin ester compounds and the 2-methyl-A -cephalosporin ester compounds of this invention are those having the Formulas I and III indicated above where z is 0, and R, R, and X
• the reducing agents or reactant used in the process of this invention may be divided into two classes: those requiring the presence of an external activating agent, and those which do not need an external activating agent. This latter class of reducing agent provides its own activation and does not need the presence of a third chemical activator reactant although the latter can be used therewith if desired.
• An activator as defined for this invention is a chemical molecule, ion, or moiety, which activates I either the cephalosphorin sulfoxide or the reducing agent for the overall reduction process.
• the first class of reducing agents requiring external activation are listed below:
• Hydrogen will reduce the cephalosporin sulfoxide by hydrogenolysis in the presence of a noble metal catalyst such as palladium, platinum, rhodium, either as the finely divided metal element, or as a compound thereof, or on some support such as carbon or barium sulfate, and the like.
• a noble metal catalyst such as palladium, platinum, rhodium, either as the finely divided metal element, or as a compound thereof, or on some support such as carbon or barium sulfate, and the like.
• Dithionite, iodide, ferrocyanide anions can be used in the form of various inorganic or organic salts or complexes which provide the anion to the reaction medium.
• useful compounds containing these anions are alkali metal, particularly the sodium and potassium salts of dithionite, iodide, iodide, or ferrocyanide, as well as hydroiodic acid, ferrocyanic acid, and the like.
• Trivalent phosphorus compounds having a molecular weight below about 500. These compounds can be inorganic or organic and include phosphines as well as phosphinite, phosphonite, and phosphite esters containing one, two, three or mixtures of trivalent phosphorus-carbon, or trivalent phosphorus-sulfur bonds, as well as inorganic trivalent phosphorus halides and amides, and trivalent phosphorus compounds containing one or two phosphorus-halogen bonds with the remaining trivalent phosphorus bonds being satisfied by organic radicals as defined above.
• such compounds are the organic compounds of trivalent phosphorus and are the triaryl phosphites, trialkyl phosphites, mixed aryl alkyl phosphites, as well as the corresponding phosphonites and phosphinite esters, and the triarylphosphines.
• trivalent phosphorus compounds having organic groups bonded to the trivalent phosphorus, as well as such trivalent phosphorus compounds having organic groups bonded to the trivalent phosphorus, as
• trivalent phosphorus compounds having halogen bonded to the phosphorus will reduce the cephalosporin sulfoxides without the external activator.
• Halosilanes can be used to reduce the sulfoxides to the sulfifide state with or without the presence of an external activating agent.
• Compounds of the above halosilane general formula include those wherein X is chlorine, bromine, and iodine, each of R and R is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, or iodine, or an alkyl, phenyl, totyl, or xylyl such that the average molecular weight of the halosilane reducing agents below about 500.
• Examples of such compounds include: chlorosilane, bromosilane, iodosilane, silicondichloride, silicon dibromide, silicon diiodide, silicon trichloride, silicon tribromide, silicon triiodide, methylchlorosilane, ethylchlorosilane phenylchlorosilane, p-tolylchlorosilane 3,4-dimethylpher1- ylchlorosilane, the corresponding bromosilanes, and iodosilanes, dimethylchlorosilane, diethylchlorosilane, dihexylchlorosilane, diphenylchlorosilane, and the corresponding bromosilanes, and iodisilanes; hexachlorodisilanc, hexabromodisilane hexaiododisilane; dimethyltetrachlorod
• Halomethylene iminium halide compounds These reducing agents have the formula wherein Z is chlorine or bromine, each of R and R taken separately denote a C to C -alkyl group, e.g., methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, or taken together with the nitrogen to which they are bonded complete a monocyclic heterocyclic ring having from 5 to 6 ring forming atoms and a total of from 4 to about 8 carbon atoms.
• These halo methylene iminium halide reducing agents can be prepared in situ, that is, in the reaction mixture for the process of this invention by reacting an appropriate formamide with a chlorinating or brominating agent.
• chlorinating agent such as oxalyl chloride, phosphorus oxychloride, thionyl chloride
• chloromethylene N,N-dimethyliminium chloride which reacts with the A -cephalosporin sulfoxide to form the corresponding A -cephalosporin.
• chlorinating agent such as oxalyl chloride, phosphorus oxychloride, thionyl chloride
• bromine analogs of such compounds also could be prepared and used in a similar manner from the respective brominating agents if desired.
• These halomethylene iminium halide reducing agents which are preferably prepared in situ, do not need the external activating agent (0).
• the activating agent which may or may not be used in the process of this invention, depending upon the choice of reducing agent, is generally an acid halide of an acid of carbon, sulfur, or phosphorus and is preferably inert to reduction by the reducing agent, to economize on'reactants, and consequently should not contain reducible groups such as nitro or sulfoxide.
• the acid halide used in this reduction process should be one that has a second order hydrolysis constant value in 90 percent acetone and water solution at least as great as that of benzoyl chloride, as set forth by Beck and Ugi, Chem. Ber., 94, 1 839, (1961).
• Some substituted acid halides e.g., possess higher hydrolysis constants than benzoyl chloride, but are ineffective for activation, presumably because the substituent group, e.g., nitro, is reduced and the resulting acid chloride has an undesirable slow hydrolysis rate.
• carbon acid halides which may be used as activators include phosgene, carbonyl dibromide, oxalyl chloride, C to C alkanoic acid halides, preferably the chlorides or bromides, e.g., acetyl chloride, acetyl bromide, propio-nyl chloride, butanoyl bromide, hexanoyl chloride, octanoyl bromide, decanoyl chloride.
• Useful sulfur acid halides are exemplified by thionyl chloride, thionyl bromide, methanesulfonyl chloride.
• Phosphorus acid halides are represented by phosphorus oxychloride, phosphorus oxybrornide, as well as the halogenated trivalent phosphorus compounds mentioned under reducing agents, e.g., phosphorus trichloride, methyl phosphorodi chloridite, and the like.
• cephalosporin sulfoxides many combinations of cephalosporin sulfoxides, reducing agents, and activators are possible. Not all combinations are equally effective, so that for a given reducing agent one or more activating agents will give optimum reductions of cephalosporin sulfoxides. In general, however, the most active activating agents are the chemically simplest ones, and are most generally applicable.
• the cephalosporin sulfoxide is generally combined with at least a reducing equivalent of the reducing agent, and a nequivalent amount of the activating agent if the selected reducing agent is one that needs external activation.
• at least a slight excess of reducing agent and activating agent are used, relative to the cephalosporin sulfoxide on a reducing equivalent basis to insure complete reduction thereof, because the sulfoxide is usually the most expensive of the three reactants.
• the liquid medium may be provided by any substantially anhydrous organic liquid which is inert to the reduction reaction, or can be provided by an excess of any liquid activating agent that is used, e.g., acetyl chloride, without detriment to the reactants or cephalosporin sulfide product.
• any liquid activating agent e.g., acetyl chloride
• anhydrous conditions are preferred, the presence of a small amount of water in the mixture, under 5 percent, is not seriously detrimental to the reaction.
• the sulfoxide reduction process may be conducted in a wide variety of organic solvents or diluents.
• Solvents suitable for hydrogenolysis in the presence of the noble metal catalysts such as platinum, palladium, or rhodium are those that dissolve both the cephalosporin sulfoxide, and the activator, that do not poison the catalyst, and are themselves inert to hydrogenation.
• Examples of such solvents are alkanoic acids, esters thereof, or the activating acid halide thereof, e.g., acetic acid, propionic acid, mixed pentanoic acids, ethyl acetate, amyl acetate, propionyl bromide, and the like.
• a solvent that will at least partially dissolve the cephalosporin sulfoxide, reducing agent, and external activator, if used.
• the preferred solvents are inert to the action of reducing and activating agents. Since the best activators are acid halides, solvents containing hydroxyl, amino groups having hydrogen bonded to the amino groups, or free mercapto groups should not be used. Similarly, solvents containing readily reducible groups such as nitro and sulfoxide groups which may consume some of the reducing agent are not preferred because they are wasteful of reducing agents, although such solvents are not precluded if the cephalosporin sulfoxide reduction proceeds at a sufficiently greater rate than solvent reduction.
• Useful solvents or diluents for this purpose include the common hydrocarbon solvents such as benzene, toluene, xylene, heptane, esters such as ethyl acetate, amyl ace tate, ethers such as ethyl ether and tetrahydrofuran, ketones such as acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, 'alkanenitriles such as acetonitrile, propionitrile, sulfones such as dimethylsulfone, diphenylsulfone, and tetramethylene sulfone (sulfolane), halogenated hydrocarbons such as dichloroethane, dichloromethane, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, tertiary amides of carboxylic, phosphoric, phos: phonic, phosphinic acids, and sulfonic acids which are liquid at the desired temperature of
• nitroparafiins are useful as solvents with certain reducing agents, e.g., nitromethane, nitroethane, and nitropropane.
• reducing agents e.g., nitromethane, nitroethane, and nitropropane.
• mixtures of solvents which provide ready dissolution of reactants and dissipation of heat of reaction are also contemplated for use in the process of this invention.
• the activating agent used is a liquid, it can also serve as the solvent for the reactants if used in excess.
• the temperature at which the reduction is conducted is a function of several factors. In general, the reduction can be conducted at temperatures of from about -50 C. to about C. However, most active activators coupled with thevmost active reducing reagents permit reduction at relatively low temperatures (below room temperatures) in short periods of time. If the selected reducing agent is less active, or if the reducing agent and activator combination used therewith is relatively slow reacting at low 11 temperature, the temperature is raised to permit the reduction to proceed at a rate consistent with economics and optimum yield.
• Examples of the various Z-methylene sulfoxide and sulfide compounds of this invention include the following:
• EXAMPLE 3 4-nitrophenacyl 3-acetoxymethyl-2-methylene 7&(2-thienyl) acetamido-3 -'cephern-4-carb oxylatel-oxide 4-nitrophenacyl-3-acetoxymethyl 7 (2'-thienyl-acetamido) 3 cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide (6.5 g., 113 mmoles), dimethylamine hydrochloride (0.93 g., 11.3 mmoles), and 2 ml. of 37 percent formaldehyde solution were dissolved in 50 ml.,"ofdimetliylformamide and 150 ml. of t-butyl alcohol, and heated at 75 for 1, hour.
• 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7 (phenoxyacetamido)-2-methylene-3-acetoxymethyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide was prepared from 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7-(phenoxyacetamido)- 3-acetoxymethyhM-cephem-4 carboxylate according to Example 1.
• 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7 (2'-thienylacetamido)-2-methylene-3-acetoxymethyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide was prepared from 2,2,2 trichloroethyl 7 (2'-thienylacet amido) -3-acetoxymethyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide according to Example 1.
• 4-nitrobenzyl 7-(2f-thienylacetamido) 2 methylene- 3-acetoxymethyl-A cephem-4-carboxylate l oxide was prepared from 4-nitrobenzyl 7-(2'-thiopheneacetamido)-3- acetoxymethyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide according to Example 3.
• t-Butyl 7-(phenoxyacetamido)-2-methylene-3-hydroxymethyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate 1 oxide was prepared from t-butyl 7 (phenoxyacetamido)-3-hydroxymethyl- A -cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide according to Example 4.
• the crude mixture of products (3.81 gm.) was chromatographed on silica gel (300 gm.) using benzene-ethyl acetate gradient elution (6 l. solvent total).
• the first major product to emerge from the column was 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7-phenoxyacetamido 20;,3 dimethyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate (approximately 900 mg., not crystalline).
• the structure was confirmed by -IR, UV, and NMR data.
• the second major product eluted from the column was 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7- (phenoxyacetamido -2a,3-dimethyl- A -cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide (approximately 1.2 gm.) identical in all respects with the same product obtained in Example 5.
• EXAMPLE 7 4-nitrophenacyl 7-(phenoxyacetamido)-2-methylene-3- methyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate 4 nitrophenacyl 7-(phenoxyacetamido) 2 methylene-3-methyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide (1.95 gm., 2.62 mmole) (prepared according to Example 2) was dissolved in dimethylformamide (24 ml.) by heating on a steam bath and the solution was then cooled to in an ice bath. To the vigorously stirred solution, PCl (1.9 ml. 22 mmole) was added from a syringe over about 5 seconds.
• EXAMPLE 11 7-phenoxyacetamido2fi,3-dimethyl-A -cephem-4- carboxylic acid 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7-phenoxyacetamido-2;3,3-dimethyl- A -cepheml-carbox'ylate (3.85 gm., 7.79 mmoles) was dissolved in 90 percent formic acid (140 ml.) at room temperature and zinc dust (14 gm.) added, with stirring. TLC analysis showed no further change after 10 minutes.
• the reaction was worked up after minutes by filtering off the zinc (washed with methylene chloride) evaporrating the filtrate to dryness in vacuo and separating the crude product into'acidic and neutral fractions by shaking between ethyl acetate and cold dilute sodium bicarbonate solution.
• the acidic material was precipitated from the aqueous extracts by adjusting the pH to 2.0 with dilute hydrochloric acid and was extracted with ethyl acetate.
• the acidic fraction (2.07 gm., 73.5 percent) was crystallized from acetone-acetonitrile several times, yielding 7- phenoxyacetamido 2 3,3 dimethyl
• a cephem-4- carboxylic acid (1.03 gm., M.P. l51-3) characterized by a pKa 66, percent DMF) 5.10, as well as by infrared, ultraviolet, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, and elemental analysis.
• EXAMPLE 12 7-phenoxyacetamido-2a,4-dimethyl-A -cephem-4- carboxylic acid 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7-phenoxyacetamido-2a,3-dimethyl- A -cephem-4-carboxylate (4.23 gm., 3.56 mmoles) was dissolved in dimethylformamide (80 ml.) and cooled in an ice bath. Acetic acid (16 ml.) and zinc dust (4.0 gm.) were added and the mixture was stirred at 0 for 1.5
• EXAMPLE 13 7-phenoxyacetamido-2-methylene-3 -methyl-cephem-4- carboxylic acid
• 2,2,2 trichloroethyl 7 phenoxyacetamido-2- methylene 3 methyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate (1.45 gm., 2.95 mmoles) was treated with zinc dust (5 gm.) in 90 percent acetic acid (60 ml.), there was obtained an acidic product (1.06 gm., 99 percent), which crystallized from acetone-ace-tonitrile, 155-6
• Phosphorus trichloride (1.08 ml., 1.7 -gm., 12.4 mmoles) was added in 5 seconds, and the reaction mixture was stirred for 30 seconds, and then poured into an ice cold solution of diammonium hydrogen orthophosphate (5 gm., 37.2 mmoles) in water (100 ml.). The pH was adjusted to pH 2.5 with a few drops of dilute hydrochloric acid and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate to separate the product. The ethylacetate solution was extracted with ice cold dilute sodium bicarbonate fraction to remove acidic materials. The aqueous layer was re-acidified with dilute hydrochloric acid, and then extracted with ethyl acetate.
• the crude acidic fraction weighed 190 mg. To a solution of this acidic fraction in dioxane there was added a solution of sodium acetate (45 mg.) in methanol. Upon slight concentration of the mixture under vacuum, the sodium salt of the title compound crystallized as offwhite thread-like needles (140 mg). Recrystallization from methanol/ethanol mixture produced dense yellowcolored granular crystals. Both crystal forms decomposed (turned black) between 160 and 180 C. without melting. The structure of the compound was proven by elemental analysis, infrared, ultraviolet, and nuclear magnectic reasonance spectra.
• the 2-methyleneand 2 methyl 7 acylamido A cephem-4-carboxylic acid compounds of this invention are useful as antibiotics against a variety of Gram positive microorganisms.
• the compound of Ex- 18 ample 15 showed the following activities against four strains of penicillin G-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, by a standard gradient plate technique, the values being minimum inhibitory concentrations (M.I.C.) is micrograms of compound per milliliter of growth medium.
• V4l 0.5 V-32 0.55 X-400 20 V-84 0.5
• Examples .11 and 12 gave the following gradient plate (M.I.C.) antibiotic values against the indicated Gram positive penicillin G resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains of microorganisms.
• R is an amino protecting group
• R is hydrogen or the residue of an ester group, which can be removed readily without disrupting the cepham ring structure
• X is hydrogen, hydroxy, a C to c -alkanoyloxy, or C to C -alkyloxy
• q is 0 or 1.
• R is an acyl group of the formula wherein each of m is an integer of from 0 to 4, n is an integer of from 1 to 4 inclusive, 2 is 0 or 1, and when 2 is 0, the carbon atoms in m and n are connected by a chemical bond, and such acyl groups substituted on phenyl carbon atoms with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, C to C -alkyl, C to C -alkyloxy, nitro, cyano, or trifiuoromethyl, or a 2-'(2'-thienyl)acety1, 'N-(protected amino) phenylglycyl, R is an ester selected from the group con sisting of 2,2,2-trichloroethyl, a C to C -tert-al'kyl, a C to C -tert-alkenyl, a C to C -tert-alkynyl,
• a compound as defined in claim 6 wherein the compound is 2,2,2-trichloroethyl 7-(phenoxyacetamido)- 2,3-dimethyl-A -cephem-4-carboxylate-l-oxide.
• a process which comprises treating with formaldehyde in the presence of a primary or secondary amine or a strong acid salt of such an amine a cephalosporin sulfoxide of the formula (III) 0 g R-NH-CH- cfi oH,
• R is an amino protecting group
• R is the residue of an ester, which can be removed readily without disrupting the cephem ring structure
• X is hydrogen, hydroxy, C to C -alkanoyloxy, or a C to C -alkyloXy, to obtain a compound of the formula wherein R, R and X are as defined above.
• a process as defined in claim 8 which further includes the steps of reducing the 2-methylene-A -cephalosporin sulfoxide ester with a reagent selected from the group consisting of (a) hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, and (b) a dialkylborane having from '1 to 6 carbon atoms in each alkyl radical to form the Z-methyl A -cephalo'sporin sulfoxide ester.
• a reagent selected from the group consisting of (a) hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, and (b) a dialkylborane having from '1 to 6 carbon atoms in each alkyl radical to form the Z-methyl A -cephalo'sporin sulfoxide ester.
• a process as defined in claim 8 wherein the 2- methylene A -cephalosporin sulfoxide ester is one in which R is an acyl group of the formula wherein each of m is an integer of from 0 to 4, n is an integer of from 1 to 4 inclusive, 2 is 0 or 1, and when z is 0, the carbon atoms in m and n are connected by a chemical bond, and such acyl groups substituted on phenyl carbon atoms with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, C to C -alkyl, C to C -alkyloxy, nitro, cyano, or trifiuoromethyl or a 2(2-thienyl)acetyl, N-(protected amino) phenylglycyl, R is an ester selected from the group consisting of 2,2,2-trichloroethyl, a C to C -tert-alky1, a C to C -tert-alkenyl, a C to C to

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